Today was our big day to go to town. We had all of our stops carefully organized and our times set so that we could get everything done and get back to the mission center at a decent hour. Well, the day turned out to be quite an adventure. Our first stop was Office Depot. We did our shopping and when we came out the van wouldn't start, again, just like yesterday. Nicholas tried the same thing he did yesterday, but this time it didn't work. So, they called the mechanic and he came from across town and got the van started. He took it to the shop and we took a cab, dropping Cheryl and Helen Ruth at the grocery store and I went to the insurance company to pay our car insurance. However, my debit card was denied. So I went back down to the taxi and on over to the supermarket were Cheryl and Helen were still shopping. I called the bank and they said that the clerk had evidently made an error in submitting the information. I told them that was quite possible because while he was working with me he was ordering lunch over the telephone and quite probably he did get confused between ordering shrimp,broccoli and carrots, and rice, while trying to submit the data on my debit card. From the supermarket we were to have lunch with the Hoffs, so Mark and Joy picked us up at the supermarket and we all met at the restaurant. Sort of looked like we were back on track.After lunch Cheryl had an appointment and I had to go to the dentist. By then we had borrowed Margie's car for Cheryl and me and Beto went to the repair shop to pick up the van. They said it was fixed. We had a little more shopping to do so we met at Price Mart. When the guys went to get the car it wouldn't start. So, Beto took the van back to the shop, Bill and Nicholas took Margie's car back to the house and got Bill's pick up which Nicholas took back to the repair shop to pick up Beto and they in turn came back to Price Mart and picked us up again. We got back to the mission center after dark. Bill's pickup is here and the van is back in the shop. I think I'm going to go to bed.